The Black Plague is one of the deadliest pandemics in human history. The Plague Struck and killed with terrible speed leaving the few who still remained alive in shock and utter confusion. People became desperate and turned to religion for hope and an explanation for this deadly event. Despite the Black Plague Striking World Wide, the Christian and Muslim reactions where quite different. These disparate reactions grew as the mortality rate due to the Black Death grew. The Background of the Black Plague is as intriguing as the variant reactions themselves and vital for fully understanding the differences in the response these two religions had towards the Black Plague. The Christian reaction was to blame the Jews and was fueled by the fear. On the Contrary the Muslims reacted in a more religious manner than blaming. The cause of all of this of course all come from general trade routes near the Mediterranean that spread the plague like a wild fire. In 1346 European traders began hearing reports about a plague faraway in China (Document 1). The plague theses traders herd of destructively followed their routes to the middle east, North Africa, and Europe (Document 1). In Five years the Plague killed between 25%and 45% of the populations it touched (Document 4). A gush of blood from the nose, A swelling behind the armpits and groin where the sure sigh that inevitable death was to come (Document 6). The black plague was really three separate plagues; the bubonic was the most common, the pneumonic was less common but more deadly and the septicemic which killed all of its victims (Document 1). Medical Knowledge was next to nothing in the mid-thirteen hundreds, theories of prevention were illogical. In Europe there practices of prevention included cleaning the impure air by building fires, residing in a house facing north to avoid southerly winds, covering windows with wax cloth, filling houses with sweet smelling plants, avoiding sleep on the back and...

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...The BlackDeath was one of the most devastating times in medieval history. It lasted from 1347 until 1351, and was believed to have originated in China or Central Asia. The Black Plague was spread by infected fleas that were carried by rats. In total, it killed around 75 to 200 million people. This essay will discuss the physical symptoms of The BlackDeath, how medieval society was affected by it, the different types of suffering, how it challenged the teachings of the church and also how it led to the start of the Renaissance.
Many people that were infected by the plague would show some physical symptoms. The most common symptom was black, painful buboes. These buboes would first appear red, then turn purple and lastly to black. Some other physical symptoms were white-coated tongue, boils, coughing up blood, blood pressure dropping, septic shock, organ failure, losing motor control, fever, vomiting and many more. A painting by Matthias Grünewald, in 1480-1528 called the ‘Suffering Man’, shows a victim of the plague suffering from the buboes that are covered all over his body. He is lying on the floor half naked, with blood oozing out of his buboes. This paragraph has shown the many different symptoms of the Black Plague.
During the BlackDeath, medieval people did not actually know what had really caused the plague. They did not...

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Middle Ages' Most Notorious Killer:
The BlackDeath
This paper analyzes the documentary film "Secrets of the dead-Mystery of the BlackDeath". This film discusses about the BlackDeath, a disease resulting from a combination of bubonic and pneumonic plague, which killed millions of Europeans during the Middle Ages. Researchers in this video clarify the origins of this pandemic/how it spread, the damage it caused on the whole European continent, the theory explaining how some people managed to escape the BlackDeath and the relationship between the disease and today's most dangerous virus: the HIV. The team of experts in this film is composed of historians, geneticists, a microbiologist, a virologist and even a gastroenterologist. Thus, the combination of historical and scientific knowledge will answer the questions about the past that people have always asked.
Primary sources
First of all, many primary sources were used in this film to analyze the subject of BlackDeath. The experts had access to the written files in the London Archives, such as the burial records and plague register of the period where the disease appeared. The first type of primary source used was the burial records. Another type of written document (handwritten volume, also known as registers), is also considered as a useful...

...HOW DID THE BLACKDEATH AFFECT EUROPEAN SOCIETIES OF THE MID-FOURTEENTH CENTURY?
How did the BlackDeath affect European societies of the mid-fourteenth century?
The BlackDeath is the most significant natural phenomenon in human history and continues to be the subject of medical, historical and sociological analysis . The ‘first epidemic of the second plague pandemic’ devastated Europe between 1347 and 1351, killing 25 to 45% of Europe’s population (over 75 million people across the three continents affected) and created dramatic cultural, economic, political and social upheavals to mid-fourteenth century European society. The disease was caused by three different plague types, consisting of bubonic (60% fatal), pneumonic (100% fatal) and septicaemic (100% fatal); bacterial infections caused by Yersinia Pestis . The first records of BlackDeath in Europe, was October 1347 when a Genoese fleet of ships landed in a Sicilian port in Messina. Within six months the BlackDeath was rampant in all of Italy which was the most economically sophisticated and urbanized hub of all Europe at this time. From Italy, the disease had struck France, Spain, Portugal, England, Germany, Scandinavia, and by 1351 it had spread to north-western Russia . Italian scholar and poet, Francesco Petrarch best describes the epidemic and...

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Document Reaction Paper: A Chronicle of the BlackDeath by Jean de Venette
Ring around the rosy, pocket full of poesy, ashes, ashes, we all fall down. This seemingly innocent nursery rhyme that we all sang as little kids is actually a description of one of the most tragic outbreaks in all of history. This little ditty describes the signs and progress of the blackdeath. Ring around the rosy, the plague first makes an introduction to it's victim by a boil like sore in the groin or the armpit. Pocket full of posy, people would stuff flowers in their pockets and around their necks to keep the stench of their illness to a minimum. Ashes, ashes, the description of what this horrific plague does to one's skin when the deterioration phase begins. We all fall down, death being completely inevitable for someone unlucky enough to be contaminated by this illness. This nursery rhyme is one of the reminders we have today that keeps us in check. It reminds us that we don't have total control, mother nature has a funny way of reminding the human race who has the most power. A french friar named Jean de Venette recorded an amazingly detailed account of the blackdeath. His personal experience seeing the bubonic plague first hand must have been excruciating. France was one of the hardest hits of the...

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The BlackDeath in England 1348-1350In 1347 a Genoese ship from Caffa, on the Black Sea, came ashore at Messina, Sicily. The crew of the ship, what few were left alive, carried with them a deadly cargo, a disease so virulent that it could kill in a matter of hours. It is thought that the disease originated in the Far East, and was...

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The BlackDeath
In the year 1348 there was an immense amount of deaths that occurred in Europe, and the reason for this was discovered later on in history. All of these deaths occurred while it was spring in Italy. The cause for the deaths was theBlackDeath. This was an infection that was primarily found on fleas and these fleas were located inside the fur of rats. Because at the time rats were not looked upon in disgust the citizens of Italy were allowing these rodents to infect everyone without the people knowing. When the plague was examined those who examined it discovered that there are three versions of this plague. The three forms that were discovered are the bubonic plague, the pneumonic plague, and the Septicemic plague. There were rarely survivors of the bubonic plague, and if they did survive it would be a very painful experience to go through. The amount of people to survive the pneumonic was extremely scarce. Then the septicemic plague had no survivors or at least none that are know of.
Firstly, the BlackDeath spread throughout Europe, but while it was the plague rose out of the east. The amount of Europe’s population to have been infected exposed, or to die from...

...Explain the key features of the BlackDeath social, economic and political effects and its impact upon Europe.
In the 1300’s, The BlackDeath spread across Europe killing many people and impacted Europe socially, economically and politically. The consequences of this plague had both short-term and long-term effects that impacted upon all of Europe. The main features of the BlackDeath at the time was the origins and spread of the disease, the symptoms and treatments, the cause of the BlackDeath and the social, economical and political effects.
Many people in the 1300’s wondered how the disease came to Europe and spread across. The disease spread rapidly going from one person to another and traveling from city to city from trading. Eventually, they realised that it came from elsewhere and banned any shipping from other countries. Source D shows the proposed origins of the plague and the subsequent route of it. This source also shows the hypothetical first and second waves of the plague. This source shows how rapidly the plague spread and how much of Europe was affected. In conclusion, Europe was in a lot of danger because the majority of this country was infected with the BlackDeath.
As the Plague spread, many doctors and healers discovered the symptoms and attempted to treat the plague. Healers and doctors could not do...

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Mr. Don Godfrey
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10 November 2014
The BlackDeath
Throughout recorded history, there have been many pandemics that have dealt devastating blows to the human population. Smallpox, Cholera, and Spanish Influenza, are all examples of deadly diseases that have killed millions of people, but perhaps the most infamous of these is what many know as “The BlackDeath.” This pestilence ravaged Europe destroying entire towns, tearing apart families, and spreading fear like wildfire until it finally ended. This was a dark time in history, a time that left many questions open for speculation. During the time of BlackDeath, people had no way of knowing what this disease truly was, how it came to Europe, what caused it, or how to cure it. Today, we have answers to all of these questions, allowing us to combat this disease that still affects people across the world.
The BlackDeath is not a name of a disease, but rather a specific outbreak of a disease called plague. Plague is a disease that is caused by a bacterium called Yersinia Pestis (“Plague: Ecology and Transmission”) Yersinia Pestis is a bacterium that is most commonly found in rodents and other small mammals. When transmitted to humans, the subsequent disease, plague, takes hold (“Plague: Ecology and Transmission”). The disease has three forms, all of which are deadly in their own right...